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I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

A. The university’s COVID-19 vaccine policies In late July 2021, the university announced a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students attending classes or living in residential housing for the 2021–2022 academic

1 We take our facts from those properly pleaded in the operative complaint and matters properly judicially noticed. (County of Santa Clara v. Superior Court (2023) 87 Cal.App.5th 347, 355, fn. 2.) The trial court here granted the university’s request for judicial notice of its 2021–2022 Student Handbook. year, with a deadline of September 1, 2021. The university subsequently announced a second vaccine requirement during winter break of 2021, mandating that students receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot to continue with their education for the spring 2022 term. The university indicated that it would not accept religious exemption requests for students, and would only grant limited medical exemptions. The university imposed the mandates on students who attended classes remotely as well as in-person. Plaintiffs allege that the university imposed the mandates “largely in exchange for millions of dollars in federal [funding].” B.…